a day for celebrating and raising awareness of Open Standards and formats which takes place on the last Wednesday in March each year. On this day people who believe in fair access to communications technology teach, perform, and demonstrate.
The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.
Peer REview for Publication & Accreditation of Research Data in the Earth sciences (PREPARDE) is a UK JISC funded international project that brings together a wide range of experts in research, academic publishing and data management to produce data publication guidelines applicable across a range of research disciplines and data types.
OPUS is an attempt to collect translated texts from the web, to convert and align the entire collection, to add linguistic annotation, and to provide the community with a publicly available parallel corpus. OPUS is based on open source products and is also delivered as an open source package. We used several tools to compile the current corpus.
a "ning" community designed strictly for the media, open government communities, journalists, non-profits, and others seeking transparency in our government.
allows you to thread together 'factlets' into narratives which can be re-organized in a number of ways, at the click of a button. product of the open knowledge foundation
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
Stevan Harnad. "My text is not like data or software, to be modified, built upon, and then redistributed (perhaps as your own). You may use its content, but you may not alter it and then distribute the altered version, online or on-paper. "
The D-Net Software Kit is an Open Source service-oriented solution for the construction of customized Data Infrastructures. Data Infrastructures address the need increasingly manifested by research communities to operate over the integration of content collected from several information sources (such as institutional repositories endowed with OAI-PMH interfaces, or archives of research data).
SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. services include: RoMEO - Publisher's copyright & archiving policies, JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines, OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories, SHERPA Search - simple full-text search of UK repositories, DRIVER - developing a cross-European repository network infrastructure, and more